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Synthesis and Calibration of Phosphorescent Nanoprobes for Oxygen Imaging in Biological Systems
Published on: March 3, 2010
Ratiometric fluorescent probes for detection of intracellular singlet oxygen
Dayoung Song1, Somin Cho, Yejee Han
1Department of Bioinspired Science, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 120-750, Korea.
Organic Letters
|July 2, 2013
Abstract:
We have developed a series of molecular probes for the fluorescent detection of singlet dioxygen ((1)O2). The probes, based on asymmetrically substituted 1,3-diarylisobenzofurans, undergo the [2 + 4] cycloaddition reaction with (1)O2, producing ratiometric fluorescent responses. Two-photon fluorescence microscope experiments demonstrated the biological utility of the probes for the visualization of endogenous (1)O2 in macrophage cells.

